* David Lodge: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:25:16 -0000, Paul M. Moriarty <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems like a pretty fine point to say it's ok to create a botnet as >> long as one doesn't have criminal intent, don't you think? > > It's convoluted, the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) has a lot of ambiguous > clauses which state "with intent", but, on the counter side if you do > anything unauthorised on a computer system you are in breach (irrelevant > of intent).
Come to think of it, isn't a botnet a computer system? Wouldn't that make it illegal to dismantle it, or hamper its operation in any way? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
